Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Plugin binary compatib. over ethereal versions - possible? (v

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:13:26 +0100
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:35:23AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> >Was ethereal designed in a such way that it is possible to make a plugin
> >binary-compatible over (certain) ethereal versions?
> 
> No effort was made to do that.  There will probably continue to be API 
> changes in Ethereal until a 1.0 release is made (I have some API changes 
> I plan to make, for example).  I don't think we should make a 1.0 
> release until we think we have a reasonably stable API/ABI for plugins.

IMO, the plugin API has no real need to stabilize/ for binary compatibility:
In my personal opinion all effeort spent on supporting binary only plugins
is wasted effort - of course everyone is free to do with their time as they
like :)

 ciao
     Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.